| Abstract: | The development of human resources is a vast undertaking. With the effects of structural adjustment acting in the opposite direction, African States need to strengthen international cooperation while consolidating internal efforts at renovation. Senegal is a good example of a country which has already embarked on this path with success. Three years after the National Education Forum of 1981, the National Commission for Educational Reform identified four major problems: difficulties in respect of access to basic education; low quality and efficiency of the system; lack of qualified personnel; and insufficient management-oriented training. Its Education Project IV was launched against the backdrop of the 1980 structural adjustment programme, which sought to reduce expenditure in the educational sector. Assessment of the results of the Education Project IV has made it possible to redefine the position of the educational sector. As a result, the government of Senegal has launched a vaster programme covering mainly the objectives formulated at the World Conference on Basic Education for All, held in Jomtien in 1990. This has led to the establishment of the Human Resource Development Project (HRDP), which focuses on expanding access to basic education and improving its quality and performance, improving the quality and management of secondary education, and strengthening the planning and management capacities of the education system. |
Education in Africa 
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